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...especially if he has six daughters, mostly zany, mostly blonde. An impressive photograph of the six Honorable Misses Freeman-Mitford, in their ironclad British tweeds, appears in this autobiography by one of their number. An industrious, middle-aged newspaper reader with total recall would be able to attempt a quiz about every blessed one of them, roughly thus...
Barry has not been able to get a TV job since a congressional committee sniffed at his quiz shows, found the smell was far from rosy. But in happier days, when he was earning as much as $200,000 a year and had sold his shows to NBC for $1,000,000, he invested $50,000 in a small Manhattan chemical firm, the Fragrance Process Co. It was founded in 1952 by Alfred Neuwald, 64, a Hungarian-born chemist who used Barry's money to perfect a pellet to impregnate plastics with hundreds of different fragrances...
...grades he gets on fifth-grade tests at school. But when it comes to writing, Timothy can't spell, not even such simple words as had, they and built. Like many a U.S. student, he has learned to memorize only what he needs to know for a quiz. "I don't think I'm getting the benefit of my tax dollar when it comes right down to it," Father Lewis told the astonished board. The members agreed that he might have a point, then got on to other business. Said Lewis later...
...encrusted and strung with 41 clusters and strings of precious rocks borrowed from a New York jeweler. The spectacular finery, reportedly worth $1,000,000, and billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested to her that they should quietly run away together. Hope declined, conjectured that cops would soon overtake them...
...very different reasons, the two names that may lastingly identify the 1959-60 TV season are Charles Van Doren and David Susskind. With his now-famed, melodramatic confession ("I was deeply involved in a deception"). Van Doren exposed not only the quiz fakes but the underlying shoddiness of the TV industry, started an ostentatious if temporary move toward purity. Susskind, who emerged again as the season's most prolific producer, demonstrated that the most important problem- more important than quizzes, payola and canned laughter-is good programing...